What's up fellow craft beer drinkers. Me and my wife will be moving to KC pretty soon and one of our favorite things to do is hit up River City Brewery here in Wichita. Great food and great beer. They make 7-8 beers year round and then have seasonal/specialty beers which add up to about 10-15. I'm gonna miss that place

So, I would like to know some of your favorite places to go for some beer and hopefully good food. I know of two places up there, Flying Saucer and Boulevard. Flying Saucer doesn't make their own beer but good food. I have never been to Boulevard, don't know if they even have a place that like what I'm looking for but I have had their beer and love some of them.

I've heard that KC has some of these places I'm looking for but don't know their names and of course don't know if they are any good.

Yard house has a HUGE selection of craft beers. I think they have around 120 beers on tap. JW, a member on here is the manager at the one at the Legends. The food is excellent, can't go wrong with anything. Another one is Martin City Brewery, which I have heard great things about. There's quite a few craft beer fans here, so I'm sure they will chime in.

Martin City Brewery isn't that good and you can't even get their beers in the main restaurant.

Apparently the reason why is that the brewery operation is across the street from the main restaurant. The way that liquor laws work, they would have to sell the beer to a distributor, then sell it to the restaurant in order to serve it. It sounds crazy, but that's what I was told the last time I was at the tap room.

FWIW, the bourbon barrel porter I had last week was pretty good. The dark saison is another great beer they brew. The original recipe was contract brewed with Odell.

I'm not really looking for places to go to that serve craft bears, those are popping up all over the place. Don't get me wrong, I love going to Flying Saucer or Yard House.

I'm looking for places that make their own beers, micro breweries. It sounds like something like 75th Street Brewery or Martin Street is what I'm looking for.

Does 75th serve food also? Martin Street isn't that good?

We have two micro breweries here in Wichita. River City and Wichita Brewery. Both are good but River City is my favorite. Both make their own beers, River City has more of a selection.

Kansas City has quite a couple of microbrew festivals where you can go to try new beers. Parkville has one and Zona Rosa's is August 16. I'm sure there are more, but I don't know where off the top of my head. High Noon Saloon (Leavenworth) had a beer at the Zona Rosa Festival a few years back that I really liked, but I don't remember what it was.

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I love Martin City's brews, haven't had a bad one by them yet and they always seem to be adding new beers to the tap list. The construction down there makes it an ass to get to but it is a fun place to hangout. Never been to 75th st but have had a couple of their beers, didn't care for either. Cinder block brewery is located in North Kansas City, they seem to have produced some quality beers so far. KC Bier Co in Waldo is the newest brewery to open, they focus on traditional German style beers.

Lawrence has Free State brewing, plenty of good beers from there.

KC is slowly getting its beer scene up to par, lots of good places to go have beers and our local distributors do a pretty good job of procuring out of state crafts.

Out in Lawrence, 30 min west of KC, there is 23rd st brewery. They specialize in pale ales and IPAs. All of the beers they brew are good. The raspberry wheat is one of my favorites from them... it's not sweet. It is a wheat with a hint of the tart raspberry flavor. Very good on a summer day.

The other brewery in Lawrence if Free State, who is much more renowned and (IMHO) better than 23rd street brewery. They usually have 8 beers on tap that they brew themselves. Always the Copperhead, Ad Astra, Oatmeal Stout, and wheat; all of which are solid. Then, they will have 4 more that are either seasonal or one-offs. They are almost always delicious, especially at their restaurant... the food is top notch as well.

Out in Lawrence, 30 min west of KC, there is 23rd st brewery. They specialize in pale ales and IPAs. All of the beers they brew are good. The raspberry wheat is one of my favorites from them... it's not sweet. It is a wheat with a hint of the tart raspberry flavor. Very good on a summer day.

The other brewery in Lawrence if Free State, who is much more renowned and (IMHO) better than 23rd street brewery. They usually have 8 beers on tap that they brew themselves. Always the Copperhead, Ad Astra, Oatmeal Stout, and wheat; all of which are solid. Then, they will have 4 more that are either seasonal or one-offs. They are almost always delicious, especially at their restaurant... the food is top notch as well.

Thanks for all your suggestions. I will probably have to hit all them up to see how they are. I've already planned on going to Free State soon, meeting some buddies up there.

JW, I will for sure stop by The Yard House for some brews before you leave. If you don't mind me asking, why are you heading to P&L?

As we grow our brand in this market I have been asked to get this one up and off of the ground. If I do a good job, and can recreate the culture there that we have at the Legends location, I will be up for a promotion to Director of Operations.

Once we get a few of our N. Texas locations on line I will have the two KC locations and three in Texas. If things go as planed that will go down in the first quarter of '16.

I don't plan to screw it up

In the short term it will be nice to have a shorter commute as I have been living in Grain Valley MO and driving to The Legends for the last seven years.

As we grow our brand in this market I have been asked to get this one up and off of the ground. If I do a good job, and can recreate the culture there that we have at the Legends location, I will be up for a promotion to Director of Operations.

Once we get a few of our N. Texas locations on line I will have the two KC locations and three in Texas. If things go as planed that will go down in the first quarter of '16.

I don't plan to screw it up

In the short term it will be nice to have a shorter commute as I have been living in Grain Valley MO and driving to The Legends for the last seven years.

I won't miss the drive that's for sure!

Should be interesting with Flying Saucer so close. Though beer is only half the reason that YH is so good. The food there is the shit. The food at Flying Saucer is shit.

Should be interesting with Flying Saucer so close. Though beer is only half the reason that YH is so good. The food there is the shit. The food at Flying Saucer is shit.

I need to make it in to the Flying Saucer. There have been quite a few of our former team members that have migrated there to work over the years.

One of them was in today. She bartends down there and she is super awesome. I planted the seed that maybe she should come home once we open up down there

I have not tried their food, but I do wish them the best of luck and hope there is enough to go around for all. It's a sign that we went to the right area if everyone that runs a good business is prosperous

I need to make it in to the Flying Saucer. There have been quite a few of our former team members that have migrated there to work over the years.

One of them was in today. She bartends down there and she is super awesome. I planted the seed that maybe she should come home once we open up down there

I have not tried their food, but I do wish them the best of luck and hope there is enough to go around for all. It's a sign that we went to the right area if everyone that runs a good business is prosperous

They have a good beer selection and the wait staff is knowledgeable and friendly.

The food is mediocre at best, though the hot pretzel appetizer is pretty good.

Atmosphere wise I just love Yard House way better. Then when you bring in the quality of Yard House's menu it's like a no brainer to me.